RECENT efforts by political opponents to denigrate Sinn Féin's principle of abstention from the Westminster parliament have been both politically and historically ignorant. Parties such as Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael – which claim succession from pre-Treaty Sinn Féin – totally ignore the very basis of that movement. Free article

BY JUNE 1917, the most senior woman officer of the Irish Republican Army in 1916, Constance Gore Booth, Countess Markievicz, known to close friends and family as “Con”, had been in British custody for over a year. Free article

The South Longford by-election of May 1917 is principally remembered as one in which a republican prisoner was elected on the slogan “Put him in to get him out” but equally important in achieving a republican victory at the polls was the renewed threat by the British Government to partition Ireland. Free article

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Fascinating insights into

Irish revolutionary history now online

Every week over the next two years, An
Phoblacht is making all the editions of The Irish Volunteer – the newspaper of
the Irish Volunteer movement – available online exactly 100 years after they
were first published

The Irish Volunteer — tOglách na hÉireann
was first published on 7 February 1914 and every week until 22 April 1916, just
days before the Easter Rising.

Acting as the official newspaper of the
Irish Volunteers it outlined the political views of the leadership and reported
on the and important events, such as the Howth Gun Running of 1914.

Included in its pages alongside political
opinions and news reports are various advertisements for such items as
revolvers, bandoliers and military uniforms from stockists across Ireland.

You can now read these fascinating insights
into Irish revolutionary history with an online subscription to An Phoblacht
for just €10 per year. This includes a digital copy of each new edition of the
paper and Iris magazine, access to our digitised historic archives as well as
copies of The Irish Volunteer.

Experience An Phoblacht in special PDF Booklet format

Everyone can sample a few of the PDF Booklets of An Phoblacht and IRIS for free below